News for prison sentences

The editorial we published today (Oct. 6) focused on Connecticut’s Risk Reduction Earned Credit program. Under this program, which the legislature and Gov. Dannel P. Malloy established in 2011, inmates in state prisons (save for those convicted of a few especially…

Former Bridgeport Mayor Joseph P. Ganim is challenging current Mayor Bill Finch for this year’s Democratic mayoral nomination. Mr. Ganim is wholly unworthy of support. He departed the mayor’s office in 2003 to serve a nearly seven-year stint in federal…

In May, former Bridgeport Joseph P. Ganim launched a campaign to get his old job back. He now is battling Mayor Bill Finch for this year’s Democratic mayoral nomination. Mr. Ganim threw his hat into the ring a little more than 12 years after a…

In 2003, a federal jury in New Haven convicted then-Bridgeport Mayor Joseph P. Ganim on a number of corruption charges, most notably racketeering, bribery and mail fraud. This was quite the humiliation for a municipal leader who made no secret of…

Back on Oct. 15, I detailed the saga of Henry L. Centrella. Mr. Centrella, who was Winsted’s finance director for 32 years, had just been arrested by the Connecticut State Police and charged with stealing $2 million from the town…

Former Connecticut House Speaker Christopher Donovan, D-Meriden, arguably had no more loyal ally than Joshua Nassi. Mr. Nassi had long been a legislative aide to Mr. Donovan and when the then-speaker launched a bid for Congress in late 2011, Mr….

Last summer, a federal grand jury indicted eight men in connection with a scheme to bribe then-Connecticut House Speaker Christopher Donovan, D-Meriden, into killing legislation. The legislature was crafting a bill that would have subjected roll-your-own tobacco shops to taxes…

As you will recall, Robert Braddock Jr. was finance director for then-Connecticut House Speaker Christopher Donovan’s 2012 congressional campaign. Last summer, Mr. Braddock and seven other men were indicted by a federal grand jury, in connection with a plot to…

What, Steven Hayward asks, was outgoing Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour thinking when he pardoned 200 Mississippi state prisoners, including murderers and rapists? I well remember the consternation and outrage among Republicans when Bill Clinton, on his way out of office, tossed…